FYI, the longer it sits between use (when on), the longer it takes to purge the steam from the group head.

This sounds like the water in your heat-exchanger is actually boiling off, and escaping as steam...

Do you get a drip out of the bottom of the grouphead or drain when the machine is sitting hot and idle but before you have begun flushing the brewhead? If so, the brew valve isn't fully sealing. This is the valve above your brewhead which should only be open with the control handle raised. You can run the pump with valve closed by pressing the button behind the control handle down. This will raise the pressure in your heat exchanger to the relief setting and make the leak much more obvious, if you expect that it is this brew valve that is leaking. If your pump stalls (Stops making it's normal noise and drops to a quiet hum), release the button. The pump shouldn't stall, if tit does, your relief valve is set higher than the pump can handle. Check your relief valve before over stressing the hoses and fittings if it is potentially too high.

Or, maybe, is there steam rising through your cup warmer over the boiler? It is possible one of the connections to your heat exchanger is leaking a bit and the heat exchanger is boiling off steam that way.

Are there any other symptoms? I'm really not sure what else to suggest

Hey all! I've decided to step up the the wonderful world of a HX E61 machine. I pulled the trigger on a Cuadra ii from 1st Line today. :-D

Can't begin to tell you how excited I am. :-) I'm moving up from a Breville Infuser/Smart Grinder combo. I returned the grinder to BB&B and picked up a new Vario (for 350.00 shipped :-)) so I'm good to go there. Was just wondering if you guys have any tips for a new machine.

I've read through the thread here and did a good bit of research on the Web, but would like to hear from current owners for any words of wisdom.

Hey all! I've decided to step up the the wonderful world of a HX E61 machine. I pulled the trigger on a Cuadra ii from 1st Line today. :-D

Can't begin to tell you how excited I am. :-) I'm moving up from a Breville Infuser/Smart Grinder combo. I returned the grinder to BB&B and picked up a new Vario (for 350.00 shipped :-)) so I'm good to go there. Was just wondering if you guys have any tips for a new machine.

I've read through the thread here and did a good bit of research on the Web, but would like to hear from current owners for any words of wisdom.

Interesting. Just got my machine from 1st line and I'm going through the initial setup. I found their YouTube video on how to adjust the pressurestat to lower the boiler pressure down a bit, and noticed the boiler the video is fully insulated. My Cudra ii is not. I have the insulation sheet on the back of boiler in front of the reservoir, but it's not wrapped like in the video.

Interesting. Just got my machine from 1st line and I'm going through the initial setup. I found their YouTube video on how to adjust the pressurestat to lower the boiler pressure down a bit, and noticed the boiler the video is fully insulated. My Cudra ii is not. I have the insulation sheet on the back of boiler in front of the reservoir, but it's not wrapped like in the video.

i would query 1st line about it. while it does not mention insulated boiler on their website for the quadra ll, it does say that the v2 wersion is insulated in the write-ups for the standard non-v2 quadra units...

i would query 1st line about it. while it does not mention insulated boiler on their website for the quadra ll, it does say that the v2 wersion is insulated in the write-ups for the standard non-v2 quadra units...

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